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"I stick my hand into his shadow
To pull the pieces from the sand.
Which I attempt to reassemble
To see just who I might have been.
I do not recognize the vessel,
But the eyes seem so familiar.
Like phosphorescent desert buttons
Singing one familiar song..."

in Third Eye

by TOOL

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This was on the ceiling of a chapel of a FreeMasonic propertie in Sintra Portugal, Quinta da Regaleira built beetween 1904 and 1910, and it's the first of my series of shots from this place..

You have probably seen this symbol a million times in Rock bands Albuns, etc, although like every symbol, it has a specific historical context associted to the meaning.

I'm not by far an expert,but from what i read and the guide told me, the FreeMasonry is a ( not-so-secret nowadays ) society that supposedly descends from ostrcized members of Knights of the Temple Order..

For them in this stage, Science was supposed to be the key to the understanding of the universe, and even to enable men to grasp its essential meaning.Like so, this symbol is a mixture beetween the Famous Knights of the Temlar cross, and the Illuminati ( a secret society historians believe to be extint since 1800, wich many members infiltrated the Fremasonry in the early days to spread theyr range of influence ) Symbol of enligthenment.
The Iluminatti were scientists that grouped up to subversively oppose to the persucussion of the roman church to scientific theorists.

The symbol of the eye represented to them the "all seing eye of god" or like some historians say, the revelation of a higher truth. The cross represented to the masonry, the four elements of nature ( fire, water, air, earth ) So it is believed that the conjugation of the two is a representation of the fundamental pillar of the FreeMasonic Pantheist vision of divinity. Nature being god, while man through science unveils the secrets of god.

It's an interesting conception no?!

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Description
"I stick my hand into his shadow
To pull the pieces from the sand.
Which I attempt to reassemble
To see just who I might have been.
I do not recognize the vessel,
But the eyes seem so familiar.
Like phosphorescent desert buttons
Singing one familiar song..."

in Third Eye

by TOOL

FULL VIEW for Details

This was on the ceiling of a chapel of a FreeMasonic propertie in Sintra Portugal, Quinta da Regaleira built beetween 1904 and 1910, and it's the first of my series of shots from this place..

You have probably seen this symbol a million times in Rock bands Albuns, etc, although like every symbol, it has a specific historical context associted to the meaning.

I'm not by far an expert,but from what i read and the guide told me, the FreeMasonry is a ( not-so-secret nowadays ) society that supposedly descends from ostrcized members of Knights of the Temple Order..

For them in this stage, Science was supposed to be the key to the understanding of the universe, and even to enable men to grasp its essential meaning.Like so, this symbol is a mixture beetween the Famous Knights of the Temlar cross, and the Illuminati ( a secret society historians believe to be extint since 1800, wich many members infiltrated the Fremasonry in the early days to spread theyr range of influence ) Symbol of enligthenment.
The Iluminatti were scientists that grouped up to subversively oppose to the persucussion of the roman church to scientific theorists.

The symbol of the eye represented to them the "all seing eye of god" or like some historians say, the revelation of a higher truth. The cross represented to the masonry, the four elements of nature ( fire, water, air, earth ) So it is believed that the conjugation of the two is a representation of the fundamental pillar of the FreeMasonic Pantheist vision of divinity. Nature being god, while man through science unveils the secrets of god.

It's an interesting conception no?!

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